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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29614051

Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram after the Department of Homeland Security suggested they may pursue arrests of three Democratic lawmakers who partook in a protest outside of an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Rob Menendez (D-NJ) and LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) all attended the protest.

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[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 135 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If they lock up a member of Congress, dems will fold faster than a house of cards.

They have no teeth except when there's a person with mildly center left policies or a middle eastern country that's not giving them unlimited access to their oil

[–] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

We already had a problem, the democrats could've figured this out when they started arresting students and teachers during the Biden admin. They were too busy navel gazing and tut-tutting to understand the A to B. You're correct, they will absolutely fold, they stand for literally nothing.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 127 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Her and Sanders didn't even have the courage or wherewithal to head down to El Salvador to back up Garcia, had to leave it to some no-name centrist Senator

Fair weather ass pretenders

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

AOCIA showing she only cares to do photo ops and social media stunts, not enough to actually do ANYTHING else

"Oh I know, I'll vote 'present' on this measure that everyone with a soul is against"

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 58 points 2 weeks ago

"Garcia who??? I have to arm Israel sweety" AyyyyyOC

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe she knew she wouldn't get a social-democracy photo op

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 104 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] iie@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 100 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

lmao, the fuck is she going to do? write a strongly worded letter? make a frowny face at them?

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 75 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cry outside their jail cell in front of cameras while wearing all white and high heels

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"The Democratic party is working tirelessly to get our colleagues released from prison"

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the most important election of our lives. If you stand with the #Resistance, donate $5 to the Democrat Resistance Fund today.

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[–] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 44 points 2 weeks ago

It's clearly petition* time!

*The ghoulish art of giving people a false sense of agency by asking them to sign one.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

She'll make a really sarcastic TikTok and then do a goofy GenZ dance

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[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 75 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice to know she and the rest of Congress draws the line right before themselves. "Representatives", my ass.

[–] Lamprey@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That's actually kind of interesting. Will the Dems call their followers to violence if their own lives are on the line? The capitol riot may have traumatized enough of them

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

They'll flee to Ottawa, form a government in exile, and wonder why they aren't getting NED money

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 71 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Please, trump could lock the doors to the House of Representatives and start shooting dems one by one and these useless fucking ghouls would be voting for him to shoot other dems before them

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Biddles@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

Baath Party Congress of 2025

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 51 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

that's exactly what person who doesn't want to do resistance nonsense would say soviet-hmm

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

can-excuse-1 I can excuse rounding up average citizens but if they touch politicians we're going to have a problem.

can-excuse-2

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lathe-of-heaven

dems take the house, AOC becomes speaker

aoc kills trump and vance, then pardons herself as president

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 45 points 2 weeks ago

Fam, if you've found a door to ~~Narnia~~ the timeline chuds imagine we live in, tag us in

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember how badly January 6th scared her out of a legitimate concern that they would kill her. She also became even more complicit with the Dems after that. Chances are she would fold as well.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

People love to insist she was grown in a CIA lab to be a bartender or whatever, but I think AOC’s behavioral evolution is pretty much what you’d expect from a normie DSA lib who’s spent every waking hour for most of the last decade in an isolated bubble composed entirely of the worst people alive. The more time people spend in the imperial congress, the more they can’t help but start to see other congresspeople as their only peers and normal people as a vague abstract mass that can only be understood through op-eds, poll divination, and campaign strategists.

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[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

She's right. Congress would have a problem.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

Just thinking back to how Rashida Talib was treated when she was trying to bring attention to the Palestinian genocide and how none of her peers backed her up.

But now that Trump is president its a good time to stand up for peers since bad things only happen when there's a dang Cheeto in the White House.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

I won't do anything about anyone else, but if you come for me, I might try to stop you.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, you... a member of the Democratic Party... will have a problem when the Republican Party starts locking up members of the Democratic Party. You will be in jail, prison, or disappeared to places unknown.

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

glad to hear we don't yet have a problem

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

What are you going to do? Impeach him like you all did before? Hexs comitting genocide same as DaBiden . You had years of brandon and obama-drone to unfuck the PATRIOT ACT which all this shit is a derivative of but just made it worse. Your party made Trump as a STRATEGY.

[–] Nibblesnarf@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The majority of Dems in Congress would vote to allow the president to kill other Dems in Congress as long as they weren't one of them. lol. What? Trump could strangle her on live TV and nothing. Nothing at all, would happen. The US is cooked.

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

I am sure the trump admin is shaking in its boots

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago
[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

I hope Trump does a Saddam-style purge on the entire Congress

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

Keyboard warrior princess Alexandria

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

What's she going to do? Write a strongly worded letter?

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm with her

(we're in the same concentration camp)

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[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

Crying from the other side of the fence social-democracy

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

We had our chance to give Ilhan Omar a Gundam.

She didn't blow that chance. We did.

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[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago

Awwww what are these politicians gonna do? Fillibuster on a meeting? File a complaint? Yell on social media? Oh wait they are already doing that one.

Call me when they do something actually useful.

"We are going to have a problem" should mean guillotines. The tried and true means of getting rid of tyranny.

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